WOW!!!!! That went fast! Amazing that the summer season seems like it started yesterday and here we are after Club Championship preparing for camp season to end, final summer vacations, and Labor Day festivities fast approaching. I always take time to reflect on our year since I am now finished with aeration week and summer renovation work starting to erase the summer stress. I always look at this as a new year while we will prepare for fall golf and continue to build healthy surfaces for 2024 and regrow areas affected by the year's abuse. With this year's reflection being how proud of what we accomplished this year with project work and how our course handled the challenges of the summer grind. I'd also like to thank my staff and Assistant Will Travers for all the hard work and our property and culture would not be the same without the help of a great team across the Club where we are again demonstrate that Pine Hollow is an exceptional experience. In the coming days and weeks we will continue the great golf experience you have always enjoyed while healing up from the necessary evil that is GOLF COURSE AERATION. This is never an exciting time here but we ask for your patience while we make the property better thru healthy and progressive aerification. The renovation work performed over these couple weeks will pay huge dividends with better turf quality going into the fall for awesome conditions over the next few months while also giving us a great foundation for 2024. If you have any questions in regard to the process and healing time please refer back to the aeration post.
Please also review the golf course etiquette post about divot repair, ball marks, etc. and please be mindful with golf cart traffic while our tender turf continues to heal from aeration and shallow rooting from the excessive rains we have had since mid July.
Thanks again as always for your support and your help making Pine Hollow a special place for all of us!
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| Aeration promotes air exchange, nutrients, and water availability |
- MOWING HEIGHTS - Greens will be mowed at .110" 7 times per week and rolled Wednesday/Friday/Saturday/Sunday. TEES/COLLARS/APPROACHES Mowed at .325" 3 times per week. FWYS Mowed at .375" 3 times per week. ROUGH will be cut weekly at 2.25".
- AERATION/RENOVATION- Aeration wrapping up. Please review the previous post for specific details.
- TOPDRESSING - Sand will be applied bi-weekly to dilute the seasons growth, smooth the surface, and create a more consistent growing medium for our putting greens
- BUNKERS - As a reminder most bunkers have been rebuilt due to this process we are able to spend less time and money repairing after storms and this also helps get you on the course quicker. Also I want to remind you that these new bunkers will take time to settle. Soft sand will get dirty with some contamination and will settle in nicely after a few seasons. I'd also like to remind you that our hazards need your help throughout the year, if you are in a bunker please think of your fellow members and rake yourself out if no caddie is present.
Dots help staff recapture collar consistency - SILVERY THREAD MOSS - You may have noticed quarter sized black spots on some greens, this is due to the chemical applications necessary for our eradication program. Over the years we have had great success cutting back populations and just recently got aggressive with the program again. This process will be slow and has shown significant improvements on most greens with populations decreasing by 90% since I took over thru plugging and chemical applications. This process has again worked great this year and we are on our way to 100% control.
- DETAIL WORK - You will see in the coming weeks we will begin painting and dotting the course. These lines and dots are to indicate where mowing lines should be adjusting the seasons mistakes or recapturing straighter more defined lines. Please excuse our painting as we begin the process of detailing the golf course.
Re-squaring our tees with sod or scalping
